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2020 review: No respite as doping cases plague Kenyan athletes
By Gilbert Kiprotich, 1529, December 31, 2020 (EAT)
Gilbert KiprotichChief athletics writer Year 2020 will go down as one to forget for Kenyan athletes owing to the high profile sanctions imposed on th...

Daniel Wanjiru , Doping offences , Elijah Manangoi , kenya , Kenyan Athletes , Wherebouts failure , Wilson Kipsang
Russia banned from Tokyo Olympics and 2022 World Cup after CAS ruling
By Reuters, 1826, December 17, 2020 (EAT)
A Swiss court on Thursday upheld doping sanctions that will prevent Russian athletes from competing at major international events under the country’...

CAS , doping , olympics , russia , WADA , World cup
Manangoi banned for two years for anti-doping violation
By Reuters, 1413, November 15, 2020 (EAT)
Former world 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi has been banned for two years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for Whereabouts Failures, an ant0dopin...

Elijah Manangoi
Russia gets six-month extension to submit reinstatement plan
By Reuters, 1215, September 26, 2020 (EAT)
Russia’s suspended athletics federation (RusAF) has been granted a six-month extension to finalise its reinstatement plan before World Athletics dec...

russia , World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) , World Athletics
Kenyan athlete Kangogo handed two-year ban by AIU
By Gilbert Kiprotich, 2135, September 3, 2020 (EAT)
Kenya’s long-distance athlete Philip Cheruiyot Kangogo has been handed a two-year ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for an anti-doping viola...

anti-doping violation , Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) , Kenyan athlete , Philip Cheruiyot Kangogo , two-year ban
SWILA: Continued doping test failures a stain on Kenya’s athletic prowess
By Isaac Swila, 1222, July 26, 2020 (EAT)
Isaac Swilain Nairobi A dark cloud hangs over the future of Kenyan athletics if the fragrant and continued violation of anti-doping rules by the athl...

ADAK , doping , Elijah Manangoi , WADA , Wilson Kipsang
Manangoi suspended for anti-doping rule violation
By Gilbert Kiprotich, 1611, July 23, 2020 (EAT)
Commonwealth Games 1500m champion Elijah Manangoi has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for whereabouts failures. ...

1500m , AIU , Commonwealth Champion , Elijah Managoi
Russia misses deadline to pay doping fine
By Reuters, 1254, July 2, 2020 (EAT)
Russia’s suspended athletics federation said on Thursday it had missed a July 1 deadline to pay Sh533 million of a fine to World Athletics, jeopardi...

doping , RUSADA , World Athletics
Sprint star Coleman facing ban after another whereabouts failure
By Reuters, 1148, June 18, 2020 (EAT)
World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended on Wedne...

Christian Coleman , doping tests , Tokyo Olympics
WADA to continue testing ‘where possible’ amid coronavirus
By Reuters, 1150, March 24, 2020 (EAT)
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Monday that it would continue to test “where possible” while remaining in line with protocols set out ...

coronavirus , WADA
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang banned for eight years
By Reuters, 1327, February 28, 2020 (EAT)
China’s world and Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang was handed an eight-year ban on Friday, a sanction that rules him out of this year’s Tokyo Ga...

doping , olympics , Sun Yang , Tokyo 2020
MWANGI: With technology, Kenya is not left behind in fight against doping
By Citizen Reporter, 1800, February 3, 2020 (EAT)
Sam Mwangi Despite the dampening news of few Kenyan high-profile athletes being recently sanctioned for anti-doping transgressions, the country is pr...

ADAK , anti-doping , Athlete Blood Passport (ABP) , WADA
Farah happy for WADA to re-test his samples
By Reuters, 1009, January 22, 2020 (EAT)
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah said he would gladly have any of his previous blood or urine samples re-tested as part of the World Anti-Dop...

blood-urine samples , Mo Farah , test , WADA
MWANGI: Kenya can never go the Russian way
By Citizen Reporter, 2114, January 20, 2020 (EAT)
Simon Mwangi in the UK On January 14th an interesting opinion piece was penned in The Times, a UK based newspaper, by Rick Broadbent titled: “Is it...

doping , kenya , russia , Simon Mwangi
Russia challenges WADA doping ban
By Agencies, 2030, December 27, 2019 (EAT)
Russia has appealed against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years. The ban means Rus...

doping , RUSADA , russia , WADA
New WADA report shows increase in doping cases
By Reuters, 1048, December 20, 2019 (EAT)
More drug cheats are being caught in global sport with the latest World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) figures on Thursday showing a 13.1% rise in anti-dop...

France , increase in doping , russia , WADA repor , WADA report
Dope at your own risk, ADAK warns youths
By Joseph Saasia, 1157, December 16, 2019 (EAT)
The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has warned youths from over 20 counties taking part in the 6th edition of the Kenya Youth Inter-Counties Sports...

ADAK , Busia , doping , KYISA Games
Russia handed four-year ban from all major sports events over doping
By Agencies, 1446, December 9, 2019 (EAT)
Russia has been handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada). It means the Russia flag and anthem w...

four-year ban , russia , WADA
Russia braces for four-year Olympic ban
By Reuters, 1640, December 6, 2019 (EAT)
Russia could be hit with a four-year Olympic ban on Monday for flouting anti-doping rules, a punishment local officials have said would be unfair and ...

doping , RUSADA , World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
WADA meeting on Russia moved from Paris to Lausanne
By Reuters, 944, December 3, 2019 (EAT)
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has shifted a meeting that will decide whether to impose new sanctions on Russia, including a possible Olympic ban...

Lausanne , Olympic ban , russia , WADA